Online version of ASU CSE TR 96-004

Abstract (of the hardcopy version of the Notes)

This technical report contains the lecture notes and some handouts
from the course on AI Planning Methods that was conducted at Arizona
State University in Fall 1995. For most of the topics and classes,
lecture notes were taken by designated students and were
revised/extended by me. These notes are also available via WWW at
http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/planning-class.html. For the sake
of completeness, I am also including the hand-written transparencies
for the those topics that did not have designated note-takers.

It is hoped that these notes can serve as an opinionated
reference guide for advanced graduate students or other researchers
interested in AI Planning methods. I do not make any claims of
completeness of coverage. In many cases, I went for newer unifying
research directions and accounts, over more standard treatments (even
though the former have not yet been tested by time).